Combined radiator cover and seat



, 1 0 Mr 1m 7. T 6% I I H mm .m I E f y Y i 1 8 I L. a "m" I E I w J Wm'Jfffizz r liModz'ne By W W Nov. 29, 1932.

Patented Nov. 29, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ARTHUR B. MODINE, OFRAGINE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO MODINE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF RACINE,WISCONSIN, A CORPORATION OF WISCONSIN COMBINED RADIATOR COVER AND SEATOriginal application filed March 25, 1927, Serial No. 178,486. Dividedand this application filed May 8,

1930. Serial No. 450,728. I

The invention primarily relates to heating devices and has. among itsprincipal objects the production of an air heating device which willserve the dual purpose of a heating device and a piece of furniture.

The invention has as a further object the provision of means which maybe employed in the dual capacity above referred to and which willconceal the heating apparatus from view.

Another object of the invention is to. construct the piece of furnitureso as to provide a body supporting portion and a back, these twoelements being formed so as to provide a chamber and a communicatingduct, the duct being located at one side of the back so that heated aircontained in the chamber may be discharged therefrom through said ductand into the room in which the article is located.

A further object of the invention is to arrange the chamber in which theheat exchange device may be located so that said chamber is arranged inspaced relation to the floor of the room in which the article is locatedto thereby provide means whereby the .relatively cool air located in thelower portion of the room may enter the chamber, be heated and thencedischarged from the device.

Another object of the invention is to construct the back of the articleso that it is capable of association with the wall of the room in whichthe article is to be located to thereby provide a duct, one wall ofwhich is formed by the wall of the room.

The invention has these and other objects all of which will be explainedin detail and more readily understood when read in conjunction With theaccompanying drawing in which one embodiment of the invention isillustrated, it being manifest that changes and modifications may beresorted to without departing from the spirit of the appended claimsforming a part hereof.

In the drawing, Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a piece of furnituresimulating a chair Fig. 2 is a section taken on line 2'2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a section taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 1; and

. 10 and a back portion 11. designed to be arranged relatively to thewall Fig. 4 is a sectiontaken on line 44 of i i Fig. 1.

This application is a division of an application Serial No. 178,486filed by me March 25, 1927 and the present embodiment of the inventioncontemplates a piece of furniture having the body supporting. portion orseat The structure is 12 which is one of the walls of the room in whichthe device is to be locatedto thus provide a duct 13 which communicateswith a chamber 14 located below the body supporting portion 10. Thischamber 14 is provided to house or conceal a heat exchange devicegenerally designated 15. The structure contemplates the provision of aframe which includes the legs 16 and 17 and the posts 18 and 19, thelatter of which form part of the back 11. The lower portions of theposts 18 and 19 are connected with the legs 16 and 17 through the mediumof plates 20 and 21 which,.with the front plate22 form the chambergenerally designated 14. These plates 20, 21, and 22 extend downwardlyrelatively to the seat 10 a suitable distance, however, in spacedrelation to the floor of the room in which the article is to be locatedto thereby provide an opening 23 through which relatively cool air maybe introduced to the chamber, be heated by the heat exchange device 15,and thence discharged through the duct 13 into the room in which thearticle is located.

It will be noted that. plates 24 and 25 are employed which extend in arearwardly direction from the posts 18 and 19 and that said plates 24and 25 extend a suitable distance in opposite directions from the seat10 and thus form a hollow back which, when associated with the wall 12of the room in which the article is located,provides a duct throughwhich the heated air may travel from the chamber 14 and be dischargedinto the room.

It will be noted by referring to Fig. 2 that the hollow back is open atthe upper end, as

at 26, which will allow the heated air to be discharged into the room. Adamper27 is of heated air passing into the room. A

baffle plate 28 is employed and is extended from the lower face and rearedge of the body supporting portion 10 into the chamber 14 andterminates adjacent the lower termination of the plates 20, 21 and 22.

The heat exchange device 15 may be of any desired construction, thatherein shown includes the headers 29 and 30, which headers are suppliedwith connections 31 and 32 whereby said heat exchange device may beconnected with the supply and return of the heating system. The headers29 and 30 are connected with each other through the medium of thelongitudinally extending tubes 33 and may be provided with heating fins34.

The heat exchange device is located in that portion of the structureprovided below the bafile plate 28 and is also elevated a suitabledistance from the floor of the room in which the device is located sothat the relatively cool air entering the space 23 is compelled to passthrough the heat exchange device 15 and be heated prior to its dischargefrom the duct 13.

From the foregoing description of the construction, it is manlfest thatan article of furniture is produced having a body supporting portion anda back, and in which the back is formed to provide a hollow structurewhich, when associated with the wall of the room in which the article islocated, provides a duct which is open at one end to allow the heatedair circulating through the duct to be discharged into the room in whichthe device is arranged. It is further manifest that by employing thebaffle plate 28 that the chamber 14 is divided so that the portion ofthe chamber 14 located between the body supporting portion 10 and thebaffle plate is maintained in a relatively cool condition which willalso retain the body supporting element in a relatively cool condition,which will add to the comfort of the person using the device.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim and desire to cover byLetters Patent is:

1. In a combined radiator cover and seat having a body supportingportion and a hollow back, the body supporting portion being arranged toprovide a space below said por tion, the hollow back providing a ductwhich communicates with said space, said duct having a portion whichextends into the space below said body supporting portion and providinga radiator chamber at the mouth of the duct.

2. In a combined radiator cover and seat having a body supportingportion and a back, the body supporting portion being arranged toprovide a space below said portion, for the reception of a heat exchangeunit, the back having rearwardly extending side walls adapted tocooperate with a wall of the room in which said article is located tothereby provide a duct for conveying heated air into the room.

3. In a combined radiator cover and seat having a body supportingportion and a back, the body supporting portion being arranged toprovide a space below said portion for the reception of a heat exchangeunit, the back having rearwardly extending side walls for cooperationwith a wall of the room in which said article is located, to therebyprovide a duct for conveying heated air into the room and a memberextending downwardly relatively to said body supporting portion and intothe space below said portion, said member providing means for directingheated air toward said duct.

4. In a combined radiator cover and seat having a body supportingportion and a hollow back, the body supporting portion being arranged toprovide a space below said portion, the hollow back providing a ductwhich communicates with said space, the space below the body supportingportion being divided to provide separate chambers one of whichcommunicates with'said duct and provides means for the reception of aradiator, the other element being located between said body supportingportion and the chamber in which said radiator located.

5. In a combined radiator over and seat having a body supporting portionand a hollow back, a chamber located below the body supporting portionand communicating with the hollow back, the back being adapted to bearranged relatively to a wall of a room to thereby provide a duct, theduct having an opening whereby air may be introduced into the room inwhich said article is located.

6. In a combined radiator cover and seat having a body supportingportion and a hollow back, a chamber arranged below the body supportingportion and communicating with the hollow back a. member extending for-*ardly with respect to said duct and into said chamber, the chamberbeing arranged relatively to the floor of the room in which said articleis located to provide a space whereby air to be heated may pass into thechamber and into said hollow back.

'7. In a combined radiator cover and seat having a body supportingport-ion, a hollow back and a chamber below the body supporting portionwhich communicates with said hollow back, and said back having anopening rranged to discharge heated air in a substantially verticaldirection from said back. the chamber having an opening for theintroduction of air to said chamber, and a radiator located above saidopening in said chamber. 1

In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name this 25th day of April,A. D. 1930.

ARTHUR B. MODINE.

